bumping this
Why would you clone your characters anyway? Are people really going to keep playing classic and TBC on the same characters?
I have to agree. This price is outrageous. $35 seems reasonable at first but, then I think about copying multiple characters the price gets outrageous. 35 for all my toons, ok maybe price is a little high but I would probably pay it.
They found a pressure point to extract money out of the player base; those of us who are passionate about classic WoW and they are exploiting it. 10 dollars is the price we should be charged for this and not a cent more.
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I want to preserve my character in full BiS in the expansion I earned it. As a minimum.
35 bucks to add a NEW character, already leveled up and geared up? Cheap!
Stop being so greedy! Stop demanding more and more stuff for free. And calling it “extortion” to charge for a product is pure socialist propaganda. If you are a true socialist, stop playing this capitalist game.
I am very surprised that a clone is offered AT ALL. If it was not an option at all, less than 1% of players would complain. TBC and Classic-only, and we get to choose? For free? Yippee!
Are you new on this planet? Every business in the world does this. The cost of a product to customers is NOT the cost to the business…for any product, anywhere. The customer cost pays for salaries, rent, electricity, servers, and all the other costs of running the business…NOT just the cost of the service.
Blizzard has stated repeatedly that the cost of optional services (clones, server transfers, faction changes, etc.) is intentionally artificially high, to discourage most players from using them. The services are for rare exceptions, NOT for 98% of players.
If I’ve played 1 toon for years, why do I suddenly need to play 2 toons? Cloning is for 2% of players. If I want to play 2 toons, I’ll level a second.
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Yes.
No.
EDIT:
I’m sorry. I disagree that these characters are “new”, and that’s why we have to pay for it to be in both games.
I don’t understand the difference between the free unlock with an already leveled up character, compared to unlocking the same character in the opposing game.
That’s not to say I won’t pay for the service. I’m just of the opinion that it’s not worth $35.
One being that these are NOT “new” characters. IDK why that’s the angle against lowering the price.
For me, I’m asking for more of a distinction between the boosted characters and the copies. Right now, there’s only a $5 difference between the two.
Which is why I’m opting for $30 max, as that will give a $10 gap between the Copy and the Boost.
Hell, I’ll even support a bundle deal! I just don’t think $35 per character is the “correct” value, and that’s OK.
I think most people were willing to pay a fee for this service provided it was reasonable.
Would you get annoyed if your movie theatre charged you $35 for popcorn? If you do, are you a socialist? Derp derp.
It’s OK for customers to complain about a service fee that is unreasonable. After all, that’s capitalism, comrade.
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bump this outrageous price
The point of classic with minimal monetization was to get you hooked on your character, and give you the illusion that this’d be a classic without all that mobile era monetization. Even so this game’s a cash cow, subs are extremely lucrative it’s not like Blizz wasn’t making huge profits despite all the shills acting like TBC needs every bit of monetization possible to be viable.
Now that you’re hooked, they’re moving in for the whale harvest. They know players want museum pieces, heck that’s what they themselves advertised the game as- this was always the plan, to make it seem like the classic project would be different from retail.
Of course, they aren’t even for $35 giving you something useful- you’ll be put on a classic version of your realm, as will everyone else. If 10% of players want to remain in Classic, you’ll be on a server that’s 10% the size of what it is now. Maybe on servers like WM that’s fine, but on most servers players that just paid $35 will have to pay for an xfer to- or multiples if they have alts.
This maneuver’s going to get them a massive cash infusion instantly, it’s going to work sadly. It’s also going to see a lot of players give up on Blizz and leave, and we already can see how Blizz is responding to losing 30% of their players in such a short time. They aren’t trying to gain them back or retain what’s left through quality, they’re trying to poach the rest and get what the can from the whales.
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It’s really heartbreaking to see what’s become of a company that once provided the means for so many hours of fun for me when I was in my 20s. It’s no wonder Mike Morhaime left and started a new company. He probably just didn’t want to be associated with all the terrible decisions being made, including the rampant exploitation of the customers.
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Gameplay first. I think all the microtransactions should be removed. It’s not in keeping with the spirit of vanilla and TBC.
I have only one Classic toon I plan to play in BC. Everyone else is Classic forever. As it is I am pretty upset that they are “moving” all your Classic toons to BC and you have to choose the toons you want to leave in Classic. IMHO it should be exactly the other way around.
But $35 for a surely automated service so you can play your toon in both 15 year old plus games is absurd and insulting.
I’m with Glinda and Notglinda, assuming she feels the same.
He’s not defending anything - he just called it like it is. Obviously people cant stand that because its easier to paint yourself as some kind of victim of some “obvious” tyranny when you could just walk away.
Its entitlement, plain and simple.
Should never have had the choice, #nochanges right!
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I cant tell if youre being serious or not but yeah, we never should be given the choice to clone our toons for both games.
Extortion requires forcefully requiring you to do something.
It is quite an interesting price… I mean… they’re already “snapshotting” all our characters… So they already have EVERYONES data regardless of people who do or don’t decide to play in the classic era.
The question is, what is the $35 for? Why this value? I don’t think taking the already written data and putting it on someone’s login list is $35 worth…
it should be $5 for a clone and like $30 for a boost.
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bumping this again blizzard needs to acknowledge this issue
Yeah to be honest 35$ per character ? 20$ would a still been high but way better . Being a bit greedy here but what business aint nowday’s.